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What do the numbers in a man page mean?

such as:

http://www.postfix.org/qmgr.8.html
The qmgr(8) daemon awaits t

what's the meaning of 8?

just don't know it.

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  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/587676/why-do-programs-in-unix-like-environments-have-numbers-after-their-name/587682#587682 – Paul Tomblin Apr 11 '12 at 22:03

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Do a 'man man' to get more information. The numbers are the various topic section of man pages, 8 being System administration commands and stuff. I think this question has been answered before though.

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